Sarah Williams

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sarah Williams is a scholar working on Transportation, Sociology and Political Science and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Williams has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Transportation, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Sarah Williams's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (12 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (5 papers) and ICT in Developing Communities (3 papers). Sarah Williams is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (12 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (5 papers) and ICT in Developing Communities (3 papers). Sarah Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Saudi Arabia. Sarah Williams's co-authors include Carlo Ratti, Dennis Frenchman, Riccardo Maria Pulselli, Elizabeth Currid, Jacqueline M. Klopp, Elizabeth Currid‐Halkett, Shin Bin Tan, Changping Chen, Wenfei Xu and Luc Anselin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Urban Studies.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Williams

24 papers receiving 989 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Mobile Landscapes: Using Location Data from Cell Phones for Urban Analysis

2006 578 citations Carlo Ratti, Dennis Frenchman et al. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design profile →

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Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Williams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Williams

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Williams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Williams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Williams based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sarah Williams. Sarah Williams is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Exclusionary tales in Beirut’s spaces of craftsmanship: Using historic cartography, archival ethnography, and oral history to map the enduring vulnerability of craftspeople 2023 ·Abstracts of the ICA ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sarah Williams	0
2	Tourism Morphometrics in Venice: Constructing a Tourism Services Index (TSI) to unmask the spatial interplay between tourism and urban form 2023 ·Cities ·(unknown), (unknown), Sarah Williams	12
3	Using call detail records to determine mobility patterns of different socio-demographic groups in the western area of Sierra Leone during early COVID-19 crisis 2023 ·Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science ·Y. Li, (unknown), Lily L. Tsai, Sarah Williams	1
4	Applying machine learning and geolocation techniques to social media data (Twitter) to develop a resource for urban planning 2021 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), Robert Marty, Guadalupe Bedoya, Sarah Williams, (unknown), Arianna Legovini	40
5	Can crowdsourcing create the missing crash data? 2020 ·(unknown), Robert Marty, Guadalupe Bedoya, (unknown), Sarah Williams, Arianna Legovini	1
6	Why do HIV PrEP Patients Become Lost-to-Care and How Can We Improve PrEP Retention? 2019 ·(unknown), Linden Lalley-Chareczko, (unknown), Sarah Williams, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Helen Koenig	2
7	Evaluating sensors for the measurement of public life: A future in image processing 2019 ·Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science ·Sarah Williams, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Michael Pearce, (unknown)	14
8	Commuting for women in Saudi Arabia: Metro to driving - Options to support women employment 2019 ·Journal of Transport Geography ·Sarah Williams, Waishan Qiu, Z. Awwad, (unknown)	23
9	Digital neighborhoods 2015 ·Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability ·Luc Anselin, Sarah Williams	24
10	The digital matatu project: Using cell phones to create an open source data for Nairobi's semi-formal bus system 2015 ·Journal of Transport Geography ·Sarah Williams, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jacqueline M. Klopp	69
11	Towards a Standard for Paratransit Data: Lessons from Developing GTFS Data for Nairobi's Matatu System 2014 ·Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board ·Jacqueline M. Klopp, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sarah Williams	4
12	Industry in Motion: Using Smart Phones to Explore the Spatial Network of the Garment Industry in New York City 2014 ·PLoS ONE ·Sarah Williams, Elizabeth Currid‐Halkett	11
13	The Emergence of Los Angeles as a Fashion Hub 2011 ·Urban Studies ·Sarah Williams, Elizabeth Currid‐Halkett	27
14	The Geography of Buzz: Art, Culture and the Social Milieu in Los Angeles and New York 2010 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Elizabeth Currid, Sarah Williams	11
15	Two Cities, Five Industries: Similarities and Differences within and between Cultural Industries in New York and Los Angeles 2010 ·Journal of Planning Education and Research ·Elizabeth Currid, Sarah Williams	51
16	Mobile Landscapes: Using Location Data from Cell Phones for Urban Analysis breakdown → 2006 ·Environment and Planning B Planning and Design ·Carlo Ratti, Dennis Frenchman, Riccardo Maria Pulselli, Sarah Williams	578
17	Pasadena: A new editing system for the Oxford English Dictionary 2006 ·Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) ·(unknown), Sarah Williams	2
18	Cyborg Anthropology 1995 ·Cultural Anthropology ·Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit, Sarah Williams	29
19	To See that the Empress has No Clothes: Feminist Approaches to the Visualization of Culture 1993 ·Visual Anthropology Review ·Sarah Williams	1
20	Twin Quasars Found 1990 ·Science ·Sarah Williams	22

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